agora project @ glams workshop

7 Dec 2011

Agora:interpretation & representation of

historical events online

Marieke van Erp

Lora Aroyo

http://agora.cs.vu.nl

@agoraproject

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Observations

• Amount of cultural heritage data made available has increased dramatically

• What to use it for?

• How to prevent loss of meaning?

• Meta-data differ in quality and do not make it easier for end users to find what they are looking for

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The Agora Project• 2009-2013

• VU Amsterdam (CS + History Departments), Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

• Funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) within the CATCH research programme



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• objects (digitised artworks and artifacts)

• events (concrete particulars)

• entities (actors, locations, periods)

• narratives (organisation of events)

‘Events’ is the Answer


Digital Hermeneutics*

• theory of interpretation: relation parts of wholes

• encounter of hermeneutics and Web technology

• context to think about providing access to and interpretation of online collections

*Capurro, 2010



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Enriching Collection Meta-data

• semantic search

• improving user experience

• understanding the needs of online users



Semantic Search

• suggesting relevant/related events of interest, e.g., in the same location, with the same actor, during a related period

• finding related stories/narratives of interest

• based on current interests in events finding artworks in different collections by the same creator, or on similar events




http://agora.cs.vu.nl/demo

@agoraproject





http://agora.cs.vu.nl/eventdemo

http://agora.cs.vu.nl/eventdemo

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